• By a narrow margin, the Washington Senate passed a bill approving Whitman County as the site of the state's agricultural college. The bill still needed House approval and the governor's signature.

• The Pullman Herald reported that the city of Pullman had allocated a 160-acre tract of land and $12,000 in the hope of persuading the state of Washington to build the college there.

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